Safety? Release

I'd like to comment about a product on the market called the Safety Release Stall Closure. This product allows a stall door to open when more than 200 pounds of pressure is applied. The company propounds this as a means of freeing horses so they can escape from a fire. Most horses will not bolt for their stall door in an emergency requiring evacuation. They may bounce off one wall or another in their anxiety, but if they happened to release a stall door it would be pure luck. Further, horses that are prone to leaning against their stall doors, should they once discover the small amount (for a horse) of pressure needed to open their door--well, guess who's going to be wandering around the barn all night. Also, should a horse release the door in a fire situation, that horse is probably not going to flee the barn but could be running up and down the aisleway, impeding the evacuation of other horses that are, correctly, being led from the barn by a handler. While you never want to lock a horse in a stall, you still want to be the person who decides when and how a horse leaves a stall, especially in an emergency.